Eleven other countries had signed the declaration as of Tuesday afternoon, including Norway, Finland, France and Ireland, along with 10 companies, including Microsoft, Hugging Face and Mistral AI. Civil society groups, including Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit LawZero, also signed the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security. The groups pledged to build AI that is “safe, secure, useful, and widely available to all.” (The Logic)

Talking point: The declaration calls for AI regulations—for governments to clarify legal responsibility for large-scale harm and protect whistleblowers, while developers commit to disclosing known risks and creating ways to pause or shut down the operations of models within their control. Calls to regulate the sector have been growing amid hacking incidents involving rogue AI agents. Last month, about 400 scientists called for an international body to set safety standards and track incidents of agents escaping their testing environments. In last week’s federal budget, Ottawa said it would explore creating an international body to set shared standards, assess AI safety and coordinate governments’ responses to emerging risks.

Update: This briefing was updated after more signatories joined the Paris Call.

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